Dear developers,
Thanks to all of you for your help in making this past Thursday's beta
release a great success. 10.04 LTS is shaping up to be a great release!
A brief reminder of the timeline for freezes in these crucial last three
weeks:
- The Beta freeze is lifted, but FeatureFreeze[1] is still in effect. Please
don't forget to file your freeze exception requests if you're looking to
have non-bugfix changes go in before the final release!
- The final freeze goes into effect this Thursday, April 15. After this
date, all changes to the archive must be manually approved by a member of
the release team. Don't expect feature freeze exceptions to be granted
after this date! The focus will instead be on fixing critical bugs so
that we can have a solid 10.04 LTS release.
- For packages in universe that aren't seeded in any of the Ubuntu flavors,
this final freeze is nominal; packages must be manually accepted by the
archive admins, but no additional approval is required. This means that
if you *are* trying to get a package in that needs a FeatureFreeze
exception, it's important that you get release team approval *first*,
because the archive admins are not expected to check for an exception
approval before accepting these packages.
- We do need to have a cutoff for these packages as well, so that they all
have a chance to build before the archive is closed for release. The
hard cutoff for these universe packages will be April 26; you should plan
to have your changes uploaded before this date, since any last-minute
rush on the queue risks us rejecting some packages to avoid overloading
the builders.
And remember that, since this is a long-term supported (LTS) release, there
are ample opportunities for further bugfixes after the final release by way
of the SRU process[2]. Point releases for Ubuntu and Kubuntu LTS will be
made at roughly six-month intervals, with the first expected in July 2010 to
address any critical issues not identified or fixed in time for the 10.04
LTS release.
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/slangasek at ubuntu.comvorlon at debian.org
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
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